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Top Films by Director (F-G)

Peter Faiman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crocodile Dundee 1986 1590

Valerie Faris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Miss Sunshine1 2006 851

1 Collaborated with Jonathan Dayton.

Bobby Farrelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 There's Something about Mary1 1998 420
2 Kingpin1 1996 1031

1 Collaborated with Peter Farrelly.

Peter Farrelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 There's Something about Mary1 1998 420
2 Kingpin1 1996 1031
3 Dumb & Dumber 1994 1311

1 Collaborated with Bobby Farrelly.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 572
2 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 585
3 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 1233
4 Fox and His Friends 1975 1599
5 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 1650
6 In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 1898
7 Lola 1981 2290

Jon Favreau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Iron Man 2008 1934

Federico Fellini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 8 1/2 1963 80
2 La Dolce Vita 1960 134
3 La Strada 1954 243
4 Amarcord 1973 365
5 Nights of Cabiria 1957 440
6 I Vitelloni 1953 1438
7 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 1546
8 Fellini Satyricon 1969 1885

Norman Ferguson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 199

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield.

Abel Ferrara

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bad Lieutenant 1992 1238
2 King of New York 1990 1333

Louis Feuillade

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Les Vampires 1915 856
2 Fantomas 1913 2162

Todd Field

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Bedroom 2001 1659
2 Little Children 2006 2149

Mike Figgis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 793

M. Filimonova

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ivan the Terrible, Part II1 1958 930

1 Collaborated with Sergei M. Eisenstein.

David Fincher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fight Club 1999 83
2 Seven 1995 112
3 Alienł 1992 1164
4 The Game 1997 1491

Robert Fiore

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pumping Iron1 1977 1332

1 Collaborated with George Butler.

Terrence Fisher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Horror of Dracula 1958 718
2 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 1999

Robert J. Flaherty

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nanook of the North 1922 364
2 Louisiana Story 1948 1523
3 Man of Aran 1934 1772

Richard Fleischer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 753
2 Soylent Green 1973 1257
3 Fantastic Voyage 1966 1361
4 Tora! Tora! Tora!1 1970 1760
5 The Narrow Margin 1952 2026

1 Collaborated with Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda.

Victor Fleming

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 5
2 Gone with the Wind 1939 17
3 Captains Courageous 1937 1137

James Foley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 612

Ari Folman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Waltz with Bashir 2008 1981

Bryan Forbes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Stepford Wives 1975 2124
2 Whistle Down the Wind 1961 2156

John Ford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 28
2 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 102
3 Stagecoach 1939 106
4 My Darling Clementine 1946 263
5 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 288
6 The Quiet Man 1952 307
7 How Green Was My Valley 1941 417
8 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 725
9 Mister Roberts1 1955 863
10 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 1098
11 Fort Apache 1948 1341
12 They Were Expendable 1945 1405
13 The Informer 1935 1441
14 How the West Was Won2 1962 1625
15 Rio Grande 1950 2127

1 Collaborated with Mervyn LeRoy.
2 Collaborated with Henry Hathaway and George Marshall.

Milos Forman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 35
2 Amadeus 1984 141
3 Loves of a Blonde 1965 1301
4 Hair 1979 1682
5 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 1695
6 The Firemen's Ball 1967 1956

Marc Forster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Finding Neverland 2004 1219

Bill Forsyth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Local Hero 1983 462
2 Gregory's Girl 1981 626

Bob Fosse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cabaret 1972 144
2 All That Jazz 1979 577
3 Lenny 1974 1816

Harve Foster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Song of the South1 1946 2091

1 Collaborated with Wilfred Jackson.

Jodie Foster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Home for the Holidays 1995 2201

Jonathan Frakes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 1417

Georges Franju

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Eyes without a Face 1960 662

Melvin Frank

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Court Jester1 1955 895

1 Collaborated with Norman Panama.

David Frankel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1915

1 Collaborated with Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To.

John Frankenheimer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 124
2 The Train 1964 1043
3 Seconds 1966 1122
4 Ronin 1998 1446
5 Seven Days in May 1964 1717
6 Grand Prix 1966 2324
7 Birdman of Alcatraz 1962 2382

Carl Franklin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One False Move 1992 1334
2 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 1832

Sidney Franklin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Good Earth 1937 2112

James Frawley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Muppet Movie 1979 1243

Stephen Frears

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 610
2 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 618
3 High Fidelity 2000 687
4 The Grifters 1990 790
5 The Queen 2006 1639
6 The Snapper 1993 2119
7 Dirty Pretty Things 2002 2277

Charles Frend

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cruel Sea 1953 1829

Karl Freund

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mummy 1932 852

Ron Fricke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Baraka 1992 2213

William Friedkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Exorcist 1973 76
2 The French Connection 1971 151
3 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985 1596

Kinji Fukasaku

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Battle Royale 2000 1094
2 Tora! Tora! Tora!1 1970 1760

1 Collaborated with Richard Fleischer and Toshio Masuda.

Samuel Fuller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Big Red One 1980 619
2 Pickup on South Street 1953 675
3 Shock Corridor 1963 849
4 The Steel Helmet 1951 1969
5 The Naked Kiss 1964 2089

Antoine Fuqua

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Training Day 2001 2144

Sidney J. Furie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ipcress File 1965 656

Vincent Gallo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Buffalo '66 1998 1291

Abel Gance

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Napoléon 1927 264
2 La Roue 1923 2011

Tay Garnett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 779

Leon Gast

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 When We Were Kings 1996 548

Jean Genet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Un chant d'amour 1950 2381

Terry George

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hotel Rwanda 2004 1060

Pietro Germi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 2243

Clyde Geronimi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lady and the Tramp1 1955 832
2 Cinderella1 1950 941
3 Peter Pan1 1953 999
4 One Hundred and One Dalmatians2 1961 1089
5 Sleeping Beauty 1959 1530
6 Alice in Wonderland1 1951 1643

1 Collaborated with Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske.
2 Collaborated with Hamilton Luske and Wolfgang Reitherman.

Octavio Getino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hour of the Furnaces1 1970 2370

1 Collaborated with Fernando E. Solanas and Santiago Álvarez.

Ritwik Ghatak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 1664

Cedric Gibbons

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tarzan and His Mate 1934 2328

Brian Gibson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 What's Love Got to Do with It 1993 1451

Mel Gibson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Braveheart 1995 116
2 The Passion of the Christ 2004 1365

Lewis Gilbert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alfie 1966 915
2 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 1902
3 Educating Rita 1983 2102

Terry Gilliam

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brazil 1985 77
2 Monty Python and the Holy Grail1 1975 133
3 Twelve Monkeys 1995 341
4 Time Bandits 1981 1081
5 The Fisher King 1991 1455
6 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 1720
7 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988 1927
8 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life1 1983 2369

1 Collaborated with Terry Jones.

Marco Tullio Giordana

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Best of Youth 2003 1747

François Girard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993 1783

Jonathan Glazer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sexy Beast 2000 920

Peter Glenville

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Becket 1964 2224

Jean-Luc Godard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breathless 1960 81
2 Contempt 1963 422
3 Pierrot le Fou 1965 551
4 Week End 1967 613
5 Alphaville 1965 658
6 My Life to Live 1962 1028
7 Band of Outsiders 1964 1127
8 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 1347
9 Masculine Feminine 1966 1434
10 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1935

Tony Goldwyn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Walk on the Moon 1999 1820

Michael Gondry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 176

Alejandro González Ińárritu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Amores perros 2000 748
2 21 Grams 2003 1504
3 Babel 2006 1957

Keith Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Midnight Clear 1992 1454

Michael Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pillow Talk 1959 936

Steve Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arthur 1981 1197

Stuart Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Re-Animator 1985 812

Serif Gören

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yol1 1982 2137

1 Collaborated with Yilmaz Güney.

Marleen Gorris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Antonia's Line 1995 1204

Raja Gosnell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Never Been Kissed 1999 2246

Edmund Goulding

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grand Hotel 1932 911
2 Dark Victory 1939 1113

Ashutosh Gowariker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India 2001 1884

Alfred E. Green

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Baby Face 1933 2107

David Gordon Green

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 George Washington 2000 1692

Peter Greenaway

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 1171
2 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 1198
3 The Pillow Book 1996 2334

Paul Greengrass

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 859
2 The Bourne Supremacy 2004 1018
3 United 93 2006 1169
4 Bloody Sunday 2002 2022

Tom Gries

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Will Penny 1968 2267

D.W. Griffith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Birth of a Nation 1915 161
2 Intolerance 1916 181
3 Broken Blossoms 1919 616
4 Way Down East 1920 1474

Ulu Grosbard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Straight Time 1978 2217

J. Mackye Gruber

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Butterfly Effect1 2004 2270

1 Collaborated with Eric Bress.

Christopher Guest

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Best in Show 2000 822
2 Waiting for Guffman 1996 998

Davis Guggenheim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 An Inconvenient Truth 2006 2188

John Guillermin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Towering Inferno1 1974 1267

1 Collaborated with Irwin Allen.

Sacha Guitry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Story of a Cheat 1936 1592

Yilmaz Güney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yol1 1982 2137

1 Collaborated with Serif Gören.

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 1207
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